I recently moved from a BB Z10 to an iPhone 8, and one of my biggest disappointments was finding that iTunes and the native music player would not allow me to transfer my music from my PC to my new phone if the songs hadn't been purchased through iTunes originally. I have to have my music on my phone so I can listen to it offline because a cell signal is almost non-existent where I live so any streaming service is worthless, and I object to paying Apple for Apple Music or Match.
I purchased the AirMore app and was pleasantly surprised to find it was a snap to transfer my entire music library to the phone. One immediate downside was that its UI on the phone is pretty bad, but I could live with that. However, its shuffle function is pitiful and will only shuffle <10% of my songs, so I hear the same stuff over and over. (I know the song files are OK because I can select and play them manually within AirMore.) AirMore's tech support has not been responsive.
Does anyone have any suggestions that will allow me to play all my songs offline on the phone? A way to defeat Apple's prohibition of non-iTunes-purchased music? A better third-party app? I hate the thought of buying a separate MP3 player and carrying that around with the phone.
I purchased the AirMore app and was pleasantly surprised to find it was a snap to transfer my entire music library to the phone. One immediate downside was that its UI on the phone is pretty bad, but I could live with that. However, its shuffle function is pitiful and will only shuffle <10% of my songs, so I hear the same stuff over and over. (I know the song files are OK because I can select and play them manually within AirMore.) AirMore's tech support has not been responsive.
Does anyone have any suggestions that will allow me to play all my songs offline on the phone? A way to defeat Apple's prohibition of non-iTunes-purchased music? A better third-party app? I hate the thought of buying a separate MP3 player and carrying that around with the phone.